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EP1711401B1
EP1711401B1 EP05700283A EP05700283A EP1711401B1 EP 1711401 B1 EP1711401 B1 EP 1711401B1 EP 05700283 A EP05700283 A EP 05700283A EP 05700283 A EP05700283 A EP 05700283A EP 1711401 B1 EP1711401 B1 EP 1711401B1
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Joseph Z. Sleiman
Peter C. Nielsen
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/08—Label feeding
    • B65C9/18—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
    • B65C9/1865—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip
    • B65C9/1876—Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls the labels adhering on a backing strip and being transferred by suction means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/26—Devices for applying labels
    • B65C9/36—Wipers; Pressers
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1744—Means bringing discrete articles into assembled relationship
    • Y10T156/1768—Means simultaneously conveying plural articles from a single source and serially presenting them to an assembly station

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  • This invention relates to a tamping labeler as disclosed by documents US 5 829 351 and WO 02/102669 , discussed herein after.
  • the turret rotates each bellows, consecutively, to a labelling station.
  • a bellows normally communicates with the vacuum plenum which keeps it in a retracted position; also, due to end perforations in the bellows, the negative pressure holds a label at the end of the bellows.
  • the bellows reaches the labelling station, it is coupled to the positive pressure plenum which causes a one-way valve to block the perforations and causes the bellows to rapidly extend until it tamps a product below.
  • the force of the tamping forms an adhesive bond between the pressure sensitive adhesive of the label and the product.
  • Labels are fed to each bellows from a label cassette with a label web comprising serially arranged labels on a release tape.
  • a tamping labeler is suited to the labeling of produce, given the irregular dimensions of produce. However, if the produce is wet, the tamping face of the bellows will also become wet. This can result in the surface tension between the bellows and a label being stronger than the tack adhesion between the produce and the label when the label is tamped against the produce. Should this occur, the label may remain on the bellows. This event may be repeated, such that the bellows may become clogged with a plurality of labels, thereby requiring operator intervention. Even if a bellows does not become clogged, the effectiveness of the labeler is diminished if some labels do not adhere to the produce. Document EP 1 396 434 A2 is relevant only as regards novelty, pursuant to article 54 (3) EPC.
  • This invention seeks to address this problem.
  • the surface tension between the label and tamping face is reduced. This reduction in surface tension helps ensure that when a label is tamped against a product, it remains there.
  • the tamping face may be provided with a regular, or irregular, pattern of projections, or with a texture that results in the projections.
  • a tamping labeler for use in a labeling apparatus as defined by claim 1.
  • a labeling apparatus 10 comprises a rotatably mounted turret 40 connected to a stepper motor 44 by a belt drive 42.
  • a label web 56 comprises a release tape carrying a plurality of labels 60 ( FIG. 4 ) backed with a pressure sensitive adhesive.
  • the label web extends along a U-channel member 68 to a label pick-up station 70.
  • the label web 56 is advanced by a gear 94 that is intermittently driven by stepper motor 44 through a pin wheel 46.
  • the turret carries a plurality of bellows 160.
  • Each bellows is fabricated of a flexible material, such as rubber or silicone.
  • the tamping face 162 of each bellows is perforated with holes 164.
  • a one-way valve 166 ( FIG. 4 ) is disposed inside each bellows proximate holes 164.
  • Turret 40 has a stationary core 110 with a port 112 for connection to a vacuum source (not shown) and a port 114 for connection to a source of positive pressure (not shown).
  • the internal configuration of core 110 is such that each bellows is fluidly coupled to port 112 through most of its rotation about core 110 but is instead fluidly coupled to port 114 when a bellows is at the label applying station 128.
  • a plurality of projections in the nature of domes 170 extend outwardly from a base 172 of the tamping face 162.
  • the domes are patterned across the face 162 of the bellows 160 and are arranged such that each hole 164 is partially surrounded by domes.
  • the domes may have a height of about 125 microns (5 thousandths of an inch) above the base 172 of the tamping face 162 and a diameter of about 1.25 mm (50 thousandths of an inch).
  • a bellows 160 and a label 60 are advanced to the label supply station 70 whereat the label 60 is sucked onto the tamping face 162 of the bellows by a vacuum communicated from port 112 ( FIG. 1 ) to the bellows and through to the tamping face by holes 164 ( FIG. 2 ) through the tamping face.
  • the domes 170 maintain the label 60 at a stand off from the base 172 of the tamping face. In this way, all bellows upstream of the label applying station 128 are loaded with labels 60.
  • the turret 40 is indexed (in direction T) past the label applying station 128 at a time when a product, such as item of produce 180 (being conveyed in direction C), is at the label applying station.
  • a product such as item of produce 180 (being conveyed in direction C)
  • the bellows passes through the label applying station, it is coupled to a source of positive pressure through port 114 ( FIG. 1 ), which causes the bellows to extend to tamp the product.
  • This operation is illustrated in FIG. 5 .
  • the one-way valve 166 in the bellows blocks holes 164 so that the label is not blown off the tamping face 162 of the bellows.
  • the pressure sensitive adhesive then adheres the label to the product as the bellows rotates past the label applying station and is retracted due to again being coupled to a vacuum source.
  • the tamping face of the bellows will become wet as well. In consequence, water will be interposed between fresh labels taken up by the bellows and the tamping face of the bellows.
  • the resulting surface tension must be overcome by the strength of the adhesive bond between the product and the label at the label applying station in order for the label to remain on the product and not on the bellows.
  • the domes 170 by providing a stand-off between the label and the (wet) base 172 of the tamping face 162 of the bellows, reduce this surface tension so that the labels will remain adhered to products. It will be apparent that, if necessary, the height of the domes could be increased to ensure this result.
  • the face 262 of a bellows 260 may be provided with a pattern of concentric ridges 270.
  • the spacing of these ridges would be chosen to at least substantially maintain a label at a stand-off from the base 272 of the tamping face 262.
  • a circular ridge 370a could surround each hole 164 in a bellows 360.
  • a pattern of linear ridges 370b could extend across other portions of the tamping face 362 of the bellows 360. Again, the spacing of these ridges would be chosen to at least substantially maintain a label at a stand-off from the base of the tamping face 362.
  • the tamping face may be textured such that the texture results in the projections.

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Claims (9)

  1. Etiqueteuse bourreuse (160) à utiliser dans un appareil étiqueteur (10), comprenant :
    un soufflet flexible (160) comprenant :
    une face de bourrage (162) qui est mobile d'une position rétractée à une position de bourrage étendue, ladite face de bourrage comportant une base (172) comprenant une pluralité de trous à vide (164), caractérisée en ce que ladite base (172) comprend en outre une pluralité de saillies (170, 270, 370a) faisant saillie vers l'extérieur à partir de ladite base pour maintenir au moins une partie importante d'une étiquette (60) à un écartement de ladite base.
  2. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle lesdites saillies (170, 270, 370a, 370b) sont agencées de sorte que chaque trou (164) soit partiellement entouré par au moins une des saillies.
  3. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle au moins certaines desdites saillies sont des crêtes (270, 370a, 370b).
  4. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle lesdites saillies sont des arêtes concentriques (270).
  5. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 2, dans laquelle au moins certaines desdites saillies sont des arêtes circulaires (370a).
  6. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle au moins certaines desdites saillies sont des dômes (170).
  7. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle ladite face de bourrage est texturée et lesdites saillies (170, 270, 370a, 370b) sont le résultat de la texture de ladite face de bourrage.
  8. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon la revendication 6, dans laquelle lesdits dômes (170) possèdent une hauteur de 125 microns et un diamètre de 1,25 mm.
  9. Etiqueteuse bourreuse selon une quelconque des revendications précédentes, comprenant en outre un clapet de non-retour (166) pour bloquer lesdits trous (164) lorsqu'une pression positive est introduite dans ladite étiqueteuse bourreuse.
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US10/762,269 US7363954B2 (en) 2004-01-23 2004-01-23 Tamping labeler
PCT/CA2005/000063 WO2005070769A1 (fr) 2004-01-23 2005-01-20 Etiqueteuse bourreuse

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AU2005206224A1 (en) 2005-08-04
ES2397842T3 (es) 2013-03-11
WO2005070769A1 (fr) 2005-08-04
CA2553600A1 (fr) 2005-08-04
EP1711401A4 (fr) 2008-12-17
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